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| Title: | Scientia Sermocinalis: Grammar in Medieval Classifications of the Sciences |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | Michael A. Covington |
| Description: | Figures are at the end of the paper. Most linguists today do not feel that they are lacking anything important if they cannot, on a moment’s notice, set out and defend a theory of the relationships between all existing fields of knowledge. In the Middle Ages, the situation was different. Everyone subscribed to some theory of the classification of the sciences, and the usual way to begin a treatise on any subject was to discuss how that subject fitted into the system. In this paper I want to look briefly at the place grammar occupied in various medieval classifications of the sciences. 1 Two preliminary points need to be made. First, in Latin, scientia means either ‘science ’ (i.e., field of study) or simply ‘knowledge. ’ So a classification of the sciences is a classification of types of knowledge, and it implies theories of reasoning and cognition that we do not have time to explore here. Second, the distinction between ‘science ’ and ‘art ’ varied from period to period, and some authors made no distinction. To the medievals, a classification of the sciences was a classification of things one might study or things one might know about. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/75304 |
| Other Identifier: | http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc/research/ScientiaSermocinalis-published.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.140.8646 |
| AMAD ID: | 568077 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
